Leisure Days

After settling in an A/C hut at Kadalkkara Lake Resort, we were really feeling at ease: watching fishermen at work early in the morning, enjoying a nice lunch with fried fish, fried rice... (no more curry for me, except G ordered a "roast" chicken leg but ended with a curry chicken??? It was beyond our understanding but we ate it) Took a walk to the beach on Tues evening seeing lots of local people gather there to view the sunset and relax. finished the day by sharing a big trout for late dinner at a western style restaurant. To me, Cherai beach is not as nice as Varkala beach, that must explain why they have less foreigners here. Its busy season ends by mid Feb.

On Wed we rented a motorcycle for a day but only used it in the morning. We didn't feel safe on the busy city roads without helmets, so we cruised pleasantly on the side roads along the beach for couple hours, stopped by fishing harbour,  then came back to our favourite fish lunch again! The KLR's cook taught me how to marinate this fish dish because we love it so much that we ordered it again and again! Went to the beach again in the afternoon for a dip in the water, I pigged out on egg and banana fritters. Not sure I had lost any weight during the ashram month (Avelino did);  but I won't be able to tell until I get home as I know I will gain more with the way I am eatin,g and still have not reached Vietnam yet!  We also booked massage appointments for both of us. G had a Relaxation massage for $20, I gave myself a treat with a combination of Abhyanham-Sirodhara-Medicated bath for $44US. Experiencing Sirodhara is something to remember, but the rest was not impressive for the price we paid (but still cheap compared to home). I didn't think I had the medicated bath except a shower; but after 2hrs treatment loaded with oil I had enough to question the missing service. BTW, We had laundry service from the resort, cost $2-3/load max :)

Sirodhara

I think we both slept well here the last two nights, no mosquitoes with AC on, yah!
We were planning to leave here on Thurs afternoon back to Ernakulam by taxi, stay there overnight and will take the train on Fri morning to Palakkad--don't know what the place is about, it is just on our planned route to the final destination Chennai. "Go with the flow!" my loving good traveler said ;)

I am personnally not good at saying Goodbye, and at every place we stopped, we had met many nice people so it is emotionally hard moving onto the next destination.

Until next stop...